The Coliving Code Podcast

Affordable Living in Venice Beach- Focus on Wellness & Kindness | Founders of Haven Coliving by Christine McDannell

Jan Garde is the Founder of The Embassies of Good Living, a global co-living concept that changes the way we perceive and experience later life. It will manifest as a global network of premium residences for the 60+ demographic, where quality of life will be paramount. Formerly Head of Design at Deutsche Telekom. "We believe it's time to make people looking forward to tomorrow. After having worked in marketing and customer experience design for more than 15 years for organizations big and small he gathered the smartest and brightest people and we founded THE EMBASSIES OF GOOD LIVING in Zurich in 2018.

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Jan Garde is the Founder of The Embassies of Good Living, a global co-living concept that changes the way we perceive and experience later life. It will manifest as a global network of premium residences for the 60+ demographic, where quality of life will be paramount. Formerly Head of Design at Deutsche Telekom. "We believe it's time to make people looking forward to tomorrow. After having worked in marketing and customer experience design for more than 15 years for organizations big and small he gathered the smartest and brightest people and we founded THE EMBASSIES OF GOOD LIVING in Zurich in 2018.

Website + newsletter: www.theembassies.com

Social:

https://www.instagram.com/theembassies/

https://medium.com/@theembassies

https://twitter.com/theembassies

Ed Thomas is Head of Customer Experience at The Collective, where he is responsible for designing and delivering a world-class customer experience to all members from the moment they move in to the moment they leave and beyond.

Working with different teams throughout the company, Ed’s ultimate goal is to create a vibrant experience culture where The Collective members become evangelists for the brand.

Ed’s interest in the different ways people might live in the future stems from his three years co-living experience whilst working San Francisco. Whilst there he ran sales and community for a Y-Combinator backed co-living start-up. Previous to that, he worked at a digital agency working on projects for consumer tech clients including Facebook and Amazon.

Ed Thomas is Head of Customer Experience at The Collective, where he is responsible for designing and delivering a world-class customer experience to all members from the moment they move in to the moment they leave and beyond.

Working with different teams throughout the company, Ed’s ultimate goal is to create a vibrant experience culture where The Collective members become evangelists for the brand.

Ed’s interest in the different ways people might live in the future stems from his three years co-living experience whilst working San Francisco. Whilst there he ran sales and community for a Y-Combinator backed co-living start-up. Previous to that, he worked at a digital agency working on projects for consumer tech clients including Facebook and Amazon.

Manifest Mansion is 5 entrepreneurs, all 27 and under. They have core values to guide their decisions, how they hold each other accountable, and their daily actions - notably Radical transparency, Dependability, and Elite standards.

They hold weekly masterminds every Monday where they dive into upcoming events they are hosting, house improvements, and challenges in their businesses and personal lives.

They make incremental improvements by learning from each other - both through feedback and through leading by example.

They all have different primary skillsets which allows them to add massive value to each others’ businesses.

It took them quite a bit of up-front work to find a 5 bedroom house that was the right fit and to get approved - They faced major obstacles because the landlords where concerned with their young age and the type of high-end home they would be renting.

Kyle is a strategic storyteller for entrepreneurs and health and wellness companies. $30M in sales in the last 2 years directly related to his videos. Passionate about making epic videos and making it cool to be healthy.

Manifest Mansion is 5 entrepreneurs, all 27 and under. They have core values to guide their decisions, how they hold each other accountable, and their daily actions - notably Radical transparency, Dependability, and Elite standards.

They hold weekly masterminds every Monday where they dive into upcoming events they are hosting, house improvements, and challenges in their businesses and personal lives.

They make incremental improvements by learning from each other - both through feedback and through leading by example.

They all have different primary skillsets which allows them to add massive value to each others’ businesses.

It took them quite a bit of up-front work to find a 5 bedroom house that was the right fit and to get approved - They faced major obstacles because the landlords where concerned with their young age and the type of high-end home they would be renting.

Kyle is a strategic storyteller for entrepreneurs and health and wellness companies. $30M in sales in the last 2 years directly related to his videos. Passionate about making epic videos and making it cool to be healthy.

Maria has been in business since 2007. A travel company she co-founded at the age of 18 scaled to a nation-level tour operator in Russia with 5 office locations, and an 8-figure business, serving thousands of students annually and working in several countries.

While working on the business, Maria frequently "ran away" to work remotely, pursue volunteering and community opportunities all around the world, from Nigeria to Costa Rica. The thought of living where she want and sharing her life with people she enjoyed, became very sticky.

In 2015 she did an MBA at IE business school in Madrid and decided to pursue this nomadic idea further and start a coliving space in the Canaries. In 2016 Restation Coliving opened its' doors. Since 2016 Restation grew from 1 to 4 properties and hosted over 1300 nomads as residents.

In 2017 Maria co-founded Nomad Train travel initiative together with two fellow nomads and Restation residents. Nomad Train brings digital nomads across Russia from Moscow to the capital of Mongolia and goes annually.

Restation is a perfect year-round urban beach destination coliving for digital nomads. They are a strong communty, bringing together remote entrepreneurs and remote workers. And the strong part of the community is girls - 60% female!

http://restation.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/msirotkina/

Maria has been in business since 2007. A travel company she co-founded at the age of 18 scaled to a nation-level tour operator in Russia with 5 office locations, and an 8-figure business, serving thousands of students annually and working in several countries.

While working on the business, Maria frequently "ran away" to work remotely, pursue volunteering and community opportunities all around the world, from Nigeria to Costa Rica. The thought of living where she want and sharing her life with people she enjoyed, became very sticky.

In 2015 she did an MBA at IE business school in Madrid and decided to pursue this nomadic idea further and start a coliving space in the Canaries. In 2016 Restation Coliving opened its' doors. Since 2016 Restation grew from 1 to 4 properties and hosted over 1300 nomads as residents.

In 2017 Maria co-founded Nomad Train travel initiative together with two fellow nomads and Restation residents. Nomad Train brings digital nomads across Russia from Moscow to the capital of Mongolia and goes annually.

Restation is a perfect year-round urban beach destination coliving for digital nomads. They are a strong communty, bringing together remote entrepreneurs and remote workers. And the strong part of the community is girls - 60% female!

http://restation.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/msirotkina/

Rond House is currently in ideation and creation and they are in talks with several real estate developers and investors to find the right partner that shares their vision.

There are experiments happening in Helsinki that are around living as a service or service based living but so far the concept is still very new there. Currently a lot of education is needed to help people understand what coliving is.

Sjoerd is CEO and Co-founder of Rond Production House. He has a background as theater engineer specializing in sound & lighting design. Throughout his career he has been involved in the production of hundreds of events from small local concerts to large scale music and theater festivals. He has developed and operated a cultural hub for a creative community in one of the most Northern cities of the Netherlands and most recently after moving to Finland he has been busy producing b2b conferences for startups and corporations with a strong focus on anything tech and related to our built environment.

Huong is COO and Co-founder of Rond Production House. She moved to Finland only three years ago to study international business and not only has she been involved with the production of multiple conferences and hackathons about the future of work and smart cities she also founded her first company. She has been praised multiple times for her drive and ambition and she is regularly invited as an inspirational speaker to share her story. Most recently she has been nominated out of over 3000 candidates as one of the 5 top founders of the year in the Nordic Startup Awards.

Huong and Sjoerd are both proud graduates from the Founder Institute, an accelerator program based out of Silicon Valley.

https://www.rond.fi/coliving/